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Sno-King Hires Doug Kirton to be New Hockey Director!

March 8, 2009 by webmaster

Here are a few words from Doug:
"Coming to SnoKing is a great opportunity. The association has a long and storied tradition in this area. The club has three ice sheets to offer its members, which is rare in this part of the country. I intend to use these assets to continue increasing our memberships and developing new and exciting programs for our youth hockey players."
Doug has been successful at every level of hockey earning many honors along the way.

Welcome Doug!

Read on for the full announcement:

Sno-King Announces Dan Murphy as the Director of Goaltending!

March 8, 2009 by webmaster

Dan will be running FREE goalie clinics for all Sno-King goalies Sunday's at Castle Ice throughout the season!
Welcome Dan!!!

Read on for the full announcement:

Former Snoking Player Suiting up for Memorial Cup Champion Spokane Chiefs

March 8, 2009 by webmaster

Former Snoking Hockey player T.C Cratsenberg has earned himself a position with the Spokane Chiefs of the Western Hockey League. The Federal Way, Washington native is thrilled with the opportunity and his having the time of his life. Cracking the lineup of a WHL team is no small feat! Finding a spot on the roster of the reigning champions is quite an accomplishment!

 

16U Goals for Soldiers

March 8, 2009 by webmaster

16U Scores! American Servicemen - Women and Families Win
In honor of our US Soldiers the 16U want to focus on something bigger than our hockey team and the hockey season. The 16U families and players want to recognize and help our Soldiers who selflessly make our freedom and liberties (such as hockey) here at home a reality.

This season the 16U parent have been passing the Goals for Soldiers bucket each time the 16U score at home, on the road or pick up a shutout in support of this special and honored charity…

Blue Star Mothers of America
"One of our functions is to arrange donations that benefit soldiers in their time of need, and currently, our organization is in need of monetary donations to help with shipping costs for our overseas donations of much needed personal items for our soldiers. We are also in need of monetary donations for our wounded soldiers emergency aid fund that we have set up to provide for the family members needs during this time and emergency transportation if needed to get to the military hospitals for their soldiers recovery or support"

Become a generous booster of this program when you are at a 16U game at Kingsgate or Olympicview by dropping a bill or coins in the 16U bucket. We suggest a minimum of $1 for each goal and $5 donation for each shutout.

The Players, Parents and Coaches of 16U

SKAHA Annual Auction

March 8, 2009 by webmaster

Remembering the Past & Building the Future
Saturday February 7, 2009
To be held at the Redmond Town Center Marriott

Dear Snoking Past and Present Members:
Our Annual Auction is coming up quickly and we wanted to take this opportunity to let you know about it. We would love to see you this year.
As you may know, this is our major event of the year and helps keep our operation expenses low as well as provide some of our players an opportunity that they wouldn’t otherwise have.
If you would like to be formally invited, please reply to auction@snokinghockey.com with your current contact information.
We have appreciated your support in the past and are looking forward to seeing you again.
Be sure to save this date on your calendar.
If you cannot attend and want to contribute to the Auction or the Association, please contact the SKAHA office at 425-821-7133 ext 100.

Jacqueline Grimm and Margaret Simester
Sno-King Auction Co-Chairs

Sno-King Peewee Canadian President Series Champs!

March 8, 2009 by webmaster

Congratulations to the players, coaches and families of the SnoKing Tier 1 Peewee Minor team who finished up their PCAHA season by winning the President Series championship!

They went 4-1-1 playing a total of six games.
1-0-1 against North Vancouver A1
1-1-0 against Vancouver T-birds A1
2-0-0 against Port Coquitlam A1

Sno-King Midget AA team Wins State Championship!

March 8, 2009 by webmaster


Defeats Seattle Junior 3-0 in Championship game!
Congratulations to the SnoKing Midget AA team as they powered their way to the U18 State Championship. The TBirds opened with 7-5 and 3-1 victories over Wenatchee and TriCities respectively then proceeded to run off 4 straight shutouts as they cruised their way to the Championship. Along the way, they crushed Puget Sound 5-0 in the cross over setting up for the Championship Game against Seattle Jr. where they took an early 1-0 lead through the first two periods. The TBirds then added 2 more in the third on the way to a 3-0 final. The team will be making its way down to Southern California to play for the right to go to Nationals. The regional tournament starts March Mar 5.

 Read more about the team here.

Sno-King Awards Banquet 2008-09

March 8, 2009 by webmaster

 
 
 
SKAHA Members,

Award nominations are open. Please download the nomination document off of the Forms page and send, scan (email) or fax it in to the Sno-King office. We will announce the winners at the Awards Banquet.

The deadline for receiving the nominations is March 20.

Thank You

2009 Peewee District Tier I and Tier II playoff tournament

March 8, 2009 by webmaster

 SKAHA Members,

Snoking is proud to host the 2009 Peewee District Tier I and Tier II playoff tournament. It begins on Thursday March 5th with the Championship games being played Sunday March 8th . All games will be at Castle Ice except one which will be played at Kingsgate Arena. (See schedule below)

There will be teams from Oregon, Washington, California and Nevada. Our Peewee Majors will be competing at the Tier I level. Our Peewee Minors will be competing in the Tier II division.

Pee Wee Tier I Championship Tournament Update (Games/Scores)

Pee Wee Tier II Championship Tournament Update (Games/Scores)

 

 

2008-09 Regional and State Tournaments

March 11, 2009 by webmaster

 

Regional Tournaments (Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, Hawaii, Alaska)
Congratulations to the PeeWee Major and PeeWee Minor teams for their efforts in the Pacific District Regional Tournament held at Castle Ice this past weekend. Both teams represented the association very well and they should be proud of their efforts. Kudo’s to the players, parents and Coaches.
 
The Sno-King 18u T2 team also presented themselves well this last weekend in the Regional Tournament in California after already winning the PNAHA Tier II State Championship earlier in February.
 
Good fortune to the Bantam Minor team who are off to represent us in Alaska at the Bantam Regional Tournament.  
 
 
Washington State Championship Tournaments this Weekend
 
There are two State Championship tournaments happening in our area this weekend. Sno-King is hosting the PNAHA “B” State Championship tournament for PeeWee, Bantam and Midget Divisions. Games start Friday and run through Sunday and are being played at Kingsgate and Castle Ice. We have 4 Sno-King teams representing your association across the PeeWee, Bantam, and Midget Divisions. Admission is Free.
 
Also, both our Squirt rep teams are playing in the PNAHA Squirt B State Championship tournament being held in Tacoma this weekend (Friday – Sunday).  The Sno-King teams have had very good seasons and are playing in the Gold and Silver divisions. Again, Admission is Free.
 
Please come out to cheer on your teams.
 
 
Summarized Schedules of the Sno-King games are below.